Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 5.x Certificate Trust List ctlprovider.exe heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 5.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file ctlprovider.exe of the component Certificate Trust List. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-5277. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cisco Unified Communications Manager up to 5.x (Unified Communication Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file ctlprovider.exe of the component Certificate Trust List. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Off-by-one error in the Certificate Trust List (CTL) Provider service (CTLProvider.exe) in Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM, formerly CallManager) before 20070711 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted packet that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

The bug was discovered 07/11/2007. The weakness was released 07/11/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at cisco.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-5277 since 10/13/2006. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Upgrading to version 5.1%281%29 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (31437), SecurityFocus (BID 24868†), OSVDB (36122†), Secunia (SA26043†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1018369†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-37805. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Unified Communications Manager 5.1%281%29
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: cisco.com

Advisory: cisco.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-5277 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-5277
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-37796
X-Force: 31437
SecurityFocus: 24868 - Cisco Unified Communications Manager Multiple Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 26043
OSVDB: 36122 - Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) Certificate Trust List (CTL) Provider Service (CTLProvider.exe) Remote Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1018369
Vulnerability Center: 15597 - [cisco-sa-20070711-cucm] CUCM Certificate Trust List Provider Service Overflow, Critical
Vupen: ADV-2007-2512

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 07/21/2019 17:53
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (74), 07/21/2019 17:53 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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